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3 Chickpea Recipes For Your Slow Cooker

From roasted spiced chickpeas as a snack to chickpea falafel, chickpea veggie burgers and chickpea ratatouille, there are endless ways to use this legume filled with protein, vitamins, dietary fiber and phosphorus. Versatile in its nature, the nutritious garbanzo bean both serves your cooking needs and inspires your creative tendencies.

With the Crock-Pot® 6-Quart Slow Cooker with Stovetop-Safe Cooking Pot you can easily make many chickpea dishes that require two cooking steps. With the stovetop-safe DuraCeramic™ cooking pot, you can brown or sear ingredients over the stove and then seamlessly transfer it all back to your slow cooker without losing any flavor. The next time you're in the mood for a slow-cooked chickpea dish, try out one of these recipes:

1. Chickpea Ratatouille
This hearty vegetarian dish packs a lot of flavor and serves nicely over a bed of cooked couscous.

Cover and cook on high for 4 to 5 hours, until sweet potatoes are tender and sauce has thickened.

Due to the slow ramp up, and even heating of a slow cooker, recipes featured on this site can be cooked in a range of slow cooker sizes. Recipes can be increased or decreased by one quart size per the cooking instructions. For smaller sauces and dips that call for 3 quarts or less, it is not recommended to alter the unit size. Crock-Pot® is a registered trademark and should not be used generically when referring to a 'slow cooker' within the recipes.

Sunbeam Products, Inc. d/b/a Jarden Consumer Solutions has not tested these recipes and is not responsible for the outcome of any recipe. You may not achieve the results desired due to variations in ingredients, cooking temperatures, cooking times, typos, errors, omissions, or individual cooking abilities. Please always use your best judgment when cooking with raw ingredients such as eggs, chicken or fish.